On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, at 6:26 PM, Richard Kaye wrote: > I thought OLEDB was a proprietary Microsoft technology and they stopped > pushing that a while ago? > It's a Microsoft wrapper for ODBC designed to simplify it and additionally support things that aren't relational databases, like spreadsheets.
They did deprecate it and recommended ODBC for talking to SQL Server going forward, however as of 30th of March this year they have reversed that decision and released a new SQL Server OLEDB driver. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlnativeclient/2018/03/30/released-microsoft-ole-db-driver-for-sql-server/ -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1524819552.2005447.1352642024.6463e...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
